After a hurricane, comes a rainbow.

Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.

I've lived such a great, fantastic life already, but there's still so much more.

I'm like a fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a skinnier version of Lily Allen.

I've just always been very aware and careful of everything, so that I can be ready for the perfect opportunities as they come. I don't take anything for granted or wait for anything to come to me.

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.